"Chaos" is being blamed on inaccurate counts that may have overestimated the death toll from Monday's tornado in Moore, Oklahoma.
Mother nature isn't going to give the Midwest a chance to breathe today: after a pack of tornadoes tore through the region on Sunday, the National Weather Service warned of more severe weather on the way this week, with Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas expected to take the next round of brutal thunderstorms and possible tornadoes.
If April seemed a bit on the cold side to you, you're not alone. The month was the 23rd coldest on record in the United States. Here's what winter looked like in 180 different US cities.
Here's a disturbing sign of how truly puzzling the up-and-down weather has been in Wisconsin this year: On Tuesday, when Madison residents enjoyed temperatures that hit 78 degrees, a number of calls filtered into the 911 system with reports of dead people in the grass. Also known as, you know, sunbathers.
London Mills, Illinois is being evacuated after flooding turned from bad to worse on Thursday. No, we're not talking about a few blocks of the town. Police are ordering the entire town out their homes.
Yahoo already helps power the Apple weather app that comes built in to every iPhone, but the newly mobile first company has just launched its own proprietary meteorological wonder — indeed, this photo-first new app is so wondrous that you should go download Yahoo! Weather right now.
The Northern lights will be on display tonight for the top half of the United States. A small sliver of the mid-Atlantic should get the best view.
The desire comes around at a certain time of year, when it's just starting to get nice, when the office workers of America and beyond have been cooped up for too long, too long, in the too-hot or too-cold confines of their offices. Working outside! Can we work outside today?
Winter. She's gone, right? She's left us be, and in her stead, here is intelligent, gentle, nurturing, witty, beauteous, sun-on-your-face, breezes-in-your-hair, delightful Spring.
Here's a handy little GIF from via our favorite storm-hyping network, The Weather Channel, which basically explains why the Snowquester wasn't and will never be.
It's snow season in America, and although the East Coast has been hogging all the weather-attention this year, the Midwest put Blizzard Nemo to shame on Thursday.
Discovered: Conservatives prefer Kleenex® to tissues; relationship stress makes you susceptible to illness; gene therapy cures diabetes in dogs; warm weather can cloud the mind.
This weekend's snowpocalypse hasn't reached its full wrath yet and Vine, the latest craze in image sharing, is already full of looping videos depicting today's dreary weather.
Calling all lazy nerds getting snowed in by "Nemo." Helping researchers collect snowstorm data has become so insanely easy, anyone with a smartphone and 30 seconds can be a citizen scientist during the blizzard.
Until the white-out begins — and as it continues to hammer the Northeast all weekend — here are the weather experts you should be reading and/or following on Twitter and beyond, plus what they can already teach you about this "Nemo" storm.
We in the Northeast could get hit with a lot of snow in the coming days, and the Internet and cellphones are telling us to prepare as only the Internet and cellphones can these days. Like so.
As a giant storm system passed through the American Southeast on Wednesday, a massive tornado touched down in Adairsville, Georgia, flipping cars and trucks across a major highway and killing at least one person while injuring numerous others.
The bitter cold that hit a large swath of the U.S. this week has been uncomfortable and at times dangerous, but it also has allowed photographers to capture some stunning images of places and objects that have quite literally frozen over.
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.
Talk about mixed signals. On the very morning The New York Times signaled its plans to reassign its nine environment desk journalists to other sections, the paper ran a chilling photo of "extreme weather" above the fold on A1.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Well if you didn't believe in climate change before, meteorologists are now saying 2012 saw the highest temperatures ever recorded in the U.S. mainland, displacing a record set 14 years ago.
Discovered: What a never-before-seen type of rock tells us about water on Mars; forecasting the flu based on weather; atoms get colder than absolute zero; you'll change more than you think.
As many of us transition back to our sort-of normal post-hurricane lives, there is reflection upon what we learned, not just about natural disasters and helping others in a time of need, but also about hurricane weight gain and ... hurricane love.
As weather gets weirder (yes, Sandy. Yes, a nor'easter in November), here are a few of the Y.A. and middle-grade books we've relied on in the past for guidance and clarity when our environment appears to go off the rails.
Both the New York Post and the Daily News grudgingly put our latest storm—the one that brought 4.7 inches of snow to Central Park last night—on their front pages, and there's indeed a lot of actual snow all over the streets of New York, New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. Brrr-Grrr.
It's been more than a week since Sandy hit the New York area, and with an intervening election and, now, snow on the ground, to some it may be a faded memory, enough so we can start talking about how hilarious and interesting it all was, the funny things it made us do, the compromises we had to make, and how much weight we gained from the whole event. Right?
Athena is the name of the winter storm that is currently bringing slushiness to the Northeast. This new storm-lady has gotten some attention in the aftermath of Sandy, given Sandy's altogether extensive nastiness and damage left behind.
The nor'easter is still on the way. The good news, from Weather.com, "It won't be another Sandy." The bad news: "On Wednesday, it will add misery to Sandy-battered areas with strong winds, heavy rain, rough surf, and very chilly temperatures."
The "forgotten borough" of Staten Island was hard hit by Sandy, sustaining extensive damages and accounting for nearly half the death toll in the area. It remains in need of a lot of help.
As we mentioned last week there's another storm headed our way. Though it's going to be nowhere near as damaging as Sandy—as we wrote then, don't freak—there's an added problem with this storm, which is going to bring cold air and rain, heavy gusts of wind, and possible snow to the Northeast.
Let's all sit down for this: The National Weather Service is predicting more weather of the extreme variety. A Nor'easter is "possible for Mid-Atlantic/New England states by Election Day into next Thursday," per the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center of College Park, Maryland.
With cell service snarled and power still out in downtown Manhattan, a lot of people are turning to an ancient friend: The pay phone.
Remember "Très Brooklyn"? All that and those who dine upon it, it seems, may have been left in a lurch—like the rest of us—by Sandy.
Think back to last Wednesday (yes, today is Wednesday), when we were first learning that this ridiculous-sounding monster-hybrid storm with the preposterously corny name of Sandy might hit us. There have been so many emotions since then!
Nearly seven million residents of the Northeast are still without power today, but their neighbors are doing their best to try and resume their normal lives following the disaster of Hurricane Sandy.
A lot of us for whom the big impact of Sandy is past—and keep in mind: in other places, she's only beginning—want to help, but what to do, without getting in the way? We've compiled some options for you.
We now know the identity of the Brown student who trolled the local NBC reporter. Meet Daniel Moraff, a 20-year-old member of Brown's class of 2014. He is also a comedy writer. Moraff reached out to the Atlantic Wire shortly after our post went up.
This is a continuation of our live blog updates from Monday, October 29. For the most recent news on the storm, please click here.
In purely semantical terms, Sandy is whipping up some havoc, though of a less dangerous kind than what she's doing atmospherically. Here's a lexical exploration of some of the key storm-related words flying around.
After being devastated by Hurricane Sandy, the East Coast moved forward with its recovery efforts, though millions remain without power. Stay here for more updates.
The superstitious might wonder if perhaps Sandy were some form of cosmic payback for all the snarking and making fun and lack of respect we showed with Irene, despite that prior storm's damage to many beyond Manhattan.
Frankenstorm. Snor'eastercane. Hurricane Sandy. Which term are you using to describe this freak weather occurrence that's about to ruin next week? And more importantly, did you know your portmanteau of choice could mean you're a jerk who lacks a working concept of humanity?
Batten down the hatches, have you heard? There's a weather situation a'brewing, one with the best of all possible weather situation names. Sandy Snor'eastercane is on her way to the East Coast. Maybe.
Glitches in Amazon's hosting service took down websites like Reddit, Imgur, GitHub, and a bunch of others today, much to the chagrin of homebodies everywhere. But one commenter took the blackout as a blessing, noting Mother Nature's splendor today.
The Weather Channel's unilateral decision to name winter storms has the rest of the weather community feeling left out.
Manhattan might have Fashion Week, but the outer boroughs have tornados. Yep, a twister touched down according to eyewitness reports in Queens and Brooklyn on Saturday morning.
Soon there will be pumpkins in the streets and root veggies in the green markets; Halloween decorations in the drugstores; an array of soups available from your lunchtime establishment; a certain renewed vigor in the air. Better prepare for fall while you still can. Here's how.
We're breaking up with Summer, and moving on to Fall. We'll always have the memories, though—at least, of the things that we remember.
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